Brambletail smiled and nodded, swimming around River and nosing her up to the shore to help her get back out of the water. After doing so he too jumped out of the water and shook himself off before sitting back onto his haunches and smiling at her.

Brambletail nods in understanding as he continues to groom her fur with her.

Yes, but staying dirty forever during this journey of ours isn't a good thing. In fact, the cleaner you are the easier the time you'll have disguising your scent to your prey when you hunt. It'll also help you lose any predators that might come after you in the future. Remember that.

Brambletail nodded and stopped helping River to groom her fur when she licked him back.

I believe that would be a good start. But right now the ashes that were falling before aren't doing that. We should wait for them to kick back up again before we go out and look. No sense in tracking something that isn't there.

Brambletail raises an eyebrow to River as she suddenly starts to bound around him and pounce on his tail. He moves his tail away from her before she pounces on it, wary of her antics so that she didn't hurt his tail with her playing.

River swished her tail happily when he said he would teach her, getting up and into a crouch as he told her. She waited for a second before she jumped at him to try and attack him despite how much bigger he was.

Brambletail watches River jump at him before taking a big paw and swatting her away, easily knocking her away and past him before he quickly whips around and pins her down. He soon gets off and goes back to sit on his haunches again.

Too slow little hunter. I am much larger and heavier than you are. Your approach is also sloppy. When you attack a creature that has the full intention of surviving to fight another day, you must be prepared to struggle against not only their grip, but their raw strength as well. Now do it again, and this time try to use my sheer weight against me.

River got up and shook her fur out when he got off of her, twitching her tail some as she looked at him and thought some. She pounced over to him again after a minute, trying to go quicker this time and jump to the side when she thought he was going to swat her away again and ran for him after.

Brambletail watched River try the same maneuver again after a moment and sighed, going to swat at her again. Upon missing his swipe, he quickly pays more attention to her as she moves off to the side and runs at him. He smiles at her before quickly getting up and wheeling around, moving to knock her onto her side with a quick swipe again.